DHL Group shares edge higher ahead of November earnings date
Deutsche Post DHL Group stock trades at €57.87 pre-market, up 0.29% from Wednesday's Xetra close of €57.70.
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Deutsche Post DHL Group shares are trading at €57.87 ahead of Friday's session, up 0.29% from the €57.70 close on the Xetra exchange on October 15, according to ad-hoc-news.de.
The company's next scheduled earnings release, covering the third quarter of 2026, is due on November 5. Its most recently reported results, for the second quarter of 2026, showed revenue of €22.367 billion, up 12.8% from €19.826 billion a year earlier, while EBIT rose 30.0% to €1.858 billion, DHL Group reported via ad-hoc-news.de.
After those second-quarter results, DHL Group raised its full-year 2026 guidance for reported Group EBIT to more than €6.5 billion, up from a prior forecast of more than €6.2 billion, according to the same source.
That second-quarter strength came against a backdrop of soft-freight commentary that has dominated logistics coverage through much of the year, with shippers flagging weak e-commerce parcel volumes and sluggish industrial demand in Europe and Asia. A double-digit revenue gain at a company this exposed to global trade flows would run counter to that narrative, suggesting either pricing power holding up better than peers have reported or a faster recovery in express and freight-forwarding volumes. Whether that strength extends into the third quarter will become clear when DHL Group reports on November 5.